Footnote 1 – A Case Worse Than the Dead Sea Scrolls: Leading Scholar Denied Access to Elephantine Ostraca

These ostraca are personal letters that include references to “the day of the Sabbath.” They shed light on the degree to which Elephantine Jews observed the Sabbath. See Bezalel Porten, Archives from Elephantine, (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1968; revised edition, Leiden: Brill, forthcoming), pp. 126–127.